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All Power To The Tenants
All Power To The Tenants

All Power To The Tenants

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonard Vilchis’ new book, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, is both a polemic and a guide. Drawing on their experiences organizing with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, Rosenthal and Vilchis envision a world where tenants control housing – a liberatory horizon that legal scholars, lawyers, and law students alike have a clear role to play in reaching.

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Decolonizing Sanctions

Recent calls for the use of boycotts, divestment, and economic sanctions against Israel may seem to stand in tension with another position widely held on the left: the condemnation of economic sanctions as neo-imperial warfare. However, we can resolve this tension by recovering a central insight from the period of anticolonial lawmaking.

The Promise of America’s Forgotten Labor Law

Given threats to the current system of labor rights protection — as well as unions’ increasing willingness to take an active role in addressing controversial political issues — the often overlooked Norris-LaGuardia Act is primed to take on new relevance in coming years.

The Rise of Neoliberal Public Finance

How did the American state come to be so extravagant in its recourse to public debt issuance, yet so selectively austere in its public spending choices? To answer this question, we need to understand how two rival schools of thought — Virginia school public choice and supply side economics — converged around the imperative to rein in the redistributive uses of public spending.

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Weekly Roundup: Oct 4

Jeena Shah on BDS and neoimperial sanctions, Marshall Steinbaum on the legacy of Lake Powell, and another trip down into the LPE Vault. Plus, several cool job opportunities at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, Asli Bali and Aziz Rana on the history of leftwing internationalism, Gabriel Winant on class analysis, Simon Torracinta on Swedish Social Democracy, and. . .

From the Vault: LPE & History

The blog post is never dead. It’s not even post. We reach into the vault and highlight some of our favorite posts on LPE and history, featuring K-Sue Park, Luke Herrine, Gabriel Winant, Johanna Fernández, Aziz Rana, Vanessa Ogle, Evelyn Atkinson, William Forbath and Joseph Fishkin, Claire Dunning, Beryle Satter, and Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum and Kaulu. . .

Weekly Roundup: September 26

Mehrsa Baradaran on neoliberalism’s unlikely victors, Angela Harris on the assault on academic freedom, and David Boehm and Lynn Ta on the forgotten promise of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Plus, an upcoming event with Sandeep Vaheesan, a CFP on Neoliberalism and the Capitalists, and new pieces by Amy Kapczynski, JW Mason, Matthew Dimick, Yochai Benkler,. . .

The Unlikely Victors

The intellectuals of the neoliberal movement are best understood as the losers of societal change — rearguard protectionists who decided that rather than concede to democracy, they would subvert and delegitimize it.